Inscription
The Elegy on Sir Bevil Grenville by William Cartwright is inscribed on the monument:
This was not Nature’s courage nor that thing,
We valour call which Time and Reason bring,
But a diviner fury fierce and high,
Valour transported into Ecstasy.
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